The Depoe Bay plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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20° on Nov. 13, 1978, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 21° in 1955.
Depoe Bay’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 910 ft, a difference of 900 ft: steep hill country. Open water lies within three miles. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Euchre Mountain, about 2,460 ft, 9 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Marine sedimentary rocks (siltstone, sandstone), from the Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Early Miocene to Middle Miocene, 12 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Paleocene to Middle Eocene, 38 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Siltstone. Age: Middle Eocene to Late Eocene, 34 to 48 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Gabbro. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Late Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 38 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Depoe Bay reaches Depoe Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of South Depoe Bay Creek and Depoe Bay: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Depoe Bay; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Depoe Bay has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 64° in July; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 67 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Depoe Bay normally reaches 54° and falls to 42°. The record high is 72°, in 1995; the record low 22°, in 1978. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1918.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Newport, 11 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
